The document discusses environmental justice and its relationship to human rights. It explores how environmental justice aims to ensure equitable access to resources and infrastructure for all people regardless of wealth or location. Specifically, it examines how low-income and marginalized communities often face disproportionate environmental burdens like landfills and pollution. While progress has been made through initiatives like Executive Order 12898, questions remain if the environmental justice movement can withstand opposing political and economic forces and meaningfully address the inequities faced by communities on "the other side of the tracks."

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In a very basic way, Environmental
Justice is about the intersection of
human rights, infrastructure and how
people–rich and poor, living in rich or
developing countries–equitably and
sustainably access the resources and
things they need to survive and
prosper.

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Robert Bullard, an environmental
sociologist and Dean of the Barbara
Jordan-Mickey Leland School of
Public Affairs at Texas Southern
University, is passionate about the
human side of Environmental Justice
and “unequal” environmental
protection.

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“Environmental Justice embraces the
principle that people and
communities are entitled to equal
protection of our environment,
health, employment, education,
housing, transportation and civil
rights laws….Environmental Justice
brings it all together under one tent.”

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The Environmental Justice movement
has grown both in public awareness,
attitudes and action since the signing
of Executive Order 12898 in 1994.
Progress has been made, but is it a
success?

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? President Clinton’s order was 20
years ago, and the question remains
whether EJ today is more than a
finger in the dyke in the face of
forces such as the House of
Representatives members who would
like to dismantle the Environmental
Protection Agency, or countries and
companies bent on the privatization
of water.

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Many programs to improve
communities focus on small issues
like bike paths, parks and sidewalks,
but we still plan to send hundreds of
coal export trains through low
income communities and site landfills
in them.

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A major question facing people who
live on the “other side of the tracks”
— places where landfills, water
treatment plants, chemical plants
and refineries tend to be located — is
if the Environmental Justice
movement is real and effective.

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The results are mixed, because as
Bullard says, “there is always the
other side of the tracks” for the
elderly, the poor, the disabled, the
homeless and those without access
to cars or to transit systems. Poor
communities wind up with a
“disproportionate share of the bad
stuff and a shortage of libraries,
sidewalks, parks and greenspace.”

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Sustainable communities
Sustainable communities mean lower
transportation costs, reduced air
pollution and stormwater runoff,
decreased infrastructure costs, less
time spent in cars and preservation
of historic properties and sensitive
lands. However, these benefits are
difficult to enact at the systemic level
and are always at risk of budgetary

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For example, a recent Congressional
budget measure proposes to end all
funding for the Partnership for
Sustainable Communities, a program
that unifies three federal
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the Department of Housing and
Urban Development and the
Department of Transportation) and
funding resources around sustainable
community development projects
including transportation, affordable
housing, and community
development. All forward progress of
this initiative would halt due to a
Congress focused on the short-term.

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Source:
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